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Grex > Helpers > #138: Grex System Problems - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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rcurl
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response 438 of 870:
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Jan 18 17:03 UTC 2005 |
Same question - would staff please let everyone know what is going on, and
the prospects for fixes?
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cross
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response 439 of 870:
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Jan 18 20:13 UTC 2005 |
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jor
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response 440 of 870:
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Jan 18 23:05 UTC 2005 |
blindingly fast right now.
(I shouldn't say blindingly.)
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russ
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response 441 of 870:
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Jan 18 23:15 UTC 2005 |
Mail continues to bounce due to inability to get SMTP connections.
Backtalk is timing out on both anonymous and "login" access attempts.
Grex is effectively unusable by any means of connection, for all purposes.
Re #439: That explanation is certainly wrong. I can send pings
and open new connections even while one connection is hung. The
link is up, but something is happening to halt traffic on individual
connections. This is probably why SMTP is failing.
If nothing is done to fix the problem of connections hanging, a
move to a faster line at provide.net will not help anything.
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cross
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response 442 of 870:
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Jan 19 00:48 UTC 2005 |
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russ
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response 443 of 870:
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Jan 19 01:15 UTC 2005 |
Then why doesn't retry fix the problem with the hung connection? I
can type things and see echo packets all the while.
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cross
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response 444 of 870:
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Jan 19 02:06 UTC 2005 |
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gelinas
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response 445 of 870:
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Jan 19 04:03 UTC 2005 |
Dan, what do you do on gryps? Anything other than ssh on to grex?
I've not been doing anything strenuous on groupie, but it does seem responsive
when grex is not.
Sometimes, I've been able to open a new connection to grex while the old one
is hung. Sometimes, I've seen one connection hang and another not.
I'm not convinced it's a problem affecting all machines on our network;
I've insufficient evidence.
To those complaining: yes, staff is aware of the problem and is trying to
figure it out. We simply don't have anything else to report. :(
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keesan
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response 446 of 870:
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Jan 19 04:41 UTC 2005 |
I am telnetted and grex is usable at the moment (for bbs, anyway).
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keesan
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response 447 of 870:
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Jan 19 04:50 UTC 2005 |
I just got my first mail in about two days here so perhaps things are fixed.
(I hope my answer got sent okay). There was about a 20 sec freezeup while I
was answering it but otherwise just the usual telnet lag. (I have to slow
down my typing speed to about 2/3 usual).
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keesan
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response 448 of 870:
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Jan 19 04:51 UTC 2005 |
Another mail just arrived
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gelinas
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response 449 of 870:
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Jan 19 04:51 UTC 2005 |
Re 426: the "Do Not Delete" message is an artifact of Pine. If you don't
use Pine, delete it. If you do use Pine, you won't see it.
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keesan
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response 450 of 870:
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Jan 19 05:28 UTC 2005 |
Three more mails arrived - is grex cured? I could also send mails out.
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keesan
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response 451 of 870:
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Jan 19 05:33 UTC 2005 |
Pine works and I think I replied to a mail, but a mail forwarded from here
elsewhere did not arrive. I can now ssh elsewhere too. (I am dialed in).
If someone fixed grex, thanks. If not, let's hope it stays fixed for two more
weeks.
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naftee
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response 452 of 870:
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Jan 19 08:12 UTC 2005 |
GreX is fast and then locks.
That is all.
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tsty
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response 453 of 870:
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Jan 19 09:42 UTC 2005 |
grex is fast and fine as of this entry ... whatever was done - thankxx!
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russ
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response 454 of 870:
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Jan 19 12:21 UTC 2005 |
Yup, enough of the problem has been fixed to allow mail to flow again.
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tsty
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response 455 of 870:
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Jan 19 15:37 UTC 2005 |
oh, did i type too fast in #453 .... bogged & idleded & disconnected
about 3 minutes later ...
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gull
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response 456 of 870:
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Jan 19 23:11 UTC 2005 |
It seemed suspiciously like a path MTU discovery problem of some sort.
Pings and such worked, but anything that used larger packets failed.
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jor
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response 457 of 870:
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Jan 19 23:12 UTC 2005 |
right. number of bytes.
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gull
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response 458 of 870:
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Jan 19 23:50 UTC 2005 |
Yeah. Initially I thought I was having a rerun of an MTU problem I used
to have on my own connection, but then I noticed every site I tried
except Grex was working fine.
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russ
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response 459 of 870:
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Jan 20 01:21 UTC 2005 |
The lag problem and the mail-delivery problem appear to have been
fixed completely.
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naftee
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response 460 of 870:
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Jan 20 03:38 UTC 2005 |
Whoa.
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bru
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response 461 of 870:
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Jan 20 06:28 UTC 2005 |
wanna bet? took nearly 30 seconds to establish the telnet connection over
my eathernet from work.
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jep
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response 462 of 870:
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Jan 20 15:59 UTC 2005 |
The system is deadly slow again, both via putty and Backtalk. I assume
someone is aware there is a problem, but there's very little information,
it5 seems, about what is being done about it, or if anything is being
done. Any idea abuot what is causing the problem?
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